From severe storms to tornadoes, natural disaster statistics reveal that disasters are occurring more frequently and with ...

Co-authors John Mutter and Sonali Deraniyagala explain why an interdisciplinary approach is necessary to understand these connections.

Immediate recovery efforts receive the most attention after severe natural disasters, yet new data from researchers at Drexel University and the University of Maryland suggests these climate events ...

The “perfect storm” is a phrase often invoked to suggest a combination of rare events that generate something unusually large and adverse. Often used in meteorological contexts, “perfect storms” ...

S&T’s ultimate goal with this research, development, testing, and evaluation effort is to close that gap by creating a capability for rescuing large numbers of people from an event that happens to be ...

It was another catastrophic year for weather disasters in the United States. The LA wildfires in January 2025 ‒ at $61.2 billion, the costliest fire outbreak in US history ‒ helped push the nation's ...